Family Friendly Trusted Partners

Partner organizations offering support, training, and networking opportunities to Family Friendly Schools participants. Trusted Partners provide a combination of complimentary resources and fee-based services.

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Equips educators to identify strengths, address challenges, and implement effective strategies that elevate achievement and overall school quality.

Areas of Focus

  • Assessment: A research-based tool that enables schools to evaluate performance, validate strengths, identify areas for growth, and develop clear, actionable plans for continuous improvement.
  • Conference: A premier professional learning experience featuring expert speakers and practical strategies designed to advance school excellence and student success.
  • Awards: A nationally recognized program that honors schools for achievement, growth, and sustained improvement, highlighting models of excellence for others to follow.

Contact:
Judy Warden Fields, CEO
judy@blueribbonschools.com

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Our programs include keynote presentations, workshops, and professional development initiatives to equip educators with transformative relationship-first strategies for success.

Key Offerings

  • Flagship 3-Day Intensive for District, School and Community Leaders (Santa Fe, New Mexico): Transform practice through immersive relationship-first approach.
  • Relational Leadership Virtual Academy: Build Thriving relationship-first cultures across your school community.
  • In-Person Programming: We will come to you to host a masterclass, intensive, or institute to activate lasting change through on-site relational leadership experiences.

Contact:
Lisa Otero, Program Manager
lisaotero.crlnm@gmail.com

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Successful Innovations (SI) helps schools, districts, and communities build stronger partnerships with families to support student success. FACE Learning Network is a professional learning community for family engagement practitioners and thought leaders.

Key Offerings

Contact:
SI: Shanice Davis, Program Manager;  info@si4all.com
FACE Network: info@facelearning.org

FatherFriendlySchools2

An alliance and training organization comprised of multiple national and regionally recognized school-based father engagement programs.

Professional Dev. Topics

  • Building Father-Friendly Schools That Actually Work
  • Turning Events Into Year-Round Engagement Systems
  • Reactivating and Sustaining Father Engagement Programs

Contact:
Keith Schumacher, Executive Director
keith@fatherfriendlyschools.org

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IEL Partners with communities, working with local entities to fill service needs and support them in the long-term on their transformational leadership journey.

Key Offerings

  1. Coaching, technical assistance, and professional development on family engagement
  2. District facilitated self-assessment and audits of family engagement practices
  3. Evaluation of family engagement practices

Contact:
Dr. Ryan Hurley, Regional Director
HurleyR@iel.org

NAFSCE

A membership association dedicated to advancing family, school, and community engagement. Its mission is to promote high-impact policies and practices that support child development and improve student achievement.

Key Offerings

  •  Individual and organizational membership
  • The annual National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education
  • The Family Math and Reframing Academy
  • Monthly webinars and newsletters focused on field-building

Contact:
Dr. Maggie Caspe, Senior Research Consultant
caspem@nafsce.org

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Everyone has a role in launching students to success!
We give you the resources to lead the launch. Check out our key offerings for Family Friendly Schools below.

Contact:
Barbara Boone, Director
boone.32@osu.edu

Talking Points

An education technology nonprofit with the mission to improve student outcomes by unlocking the power of effective family-school partnerships. Our research-based platform enables two-way multilingual communication in more than 150 languages through SMS text messages and mobile and web applications, ensuring every family can participate in their child’s learning.

Key Offerings

  • District Communications: Unify communications that build trust, connection and culture with reliable, comprehensive, multilingual messaging to reach all families.
  • Attendance Improvement: Help schools reduce absenteeism by engaging families as partners.
  • Academic Improvement: Strengthen literacy and math outcomes by aligning educators and families as partners in learning.

Contact:
Nancy Lee Bromberger, VP, Strategic Partnerships
nancy@talkingpts.org